Re: libwww & IPv6

On Mar 19, 9:32 pm, [email protected] (Andre-John Mas) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone tell me whether any attempts have been made to add IPv6
> support to libwww? I am interested in this since I recently took a
> look at the w3c validator and discovered that it does not support IPv6
> address. The cause is apparently limitations in LWP.
>
> If no attempt has been made thus far, are there any people interested
> in making the necessary changes?
>
> Andre

I have started looking at the changes that need to be made, but I am
not a Perl expert. The changes I have been making are relative to
5.808. So far I have made basic modifications, which I have made
available here:

http://ajmas.twilightparadox.com/misc/libwww-perl-5.808%2bipv6.tgz

The changes are basically replacing references to IO::SOCKET::INET
with IO::SOCKET::INET6. There are still a few outstanding issues,
where IPv6 is not handled correctly. For example the url function in
the file:

  lib/HTTP/Daemon.pm

When this is complete libwww will require  IO::SOCKET::INET6 as a
dependency, but the library transparently handles IPv4, so it does not
seem to be much of an issue.

Any further improvements would be appreciated.

Andre